From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-11-01T03:41:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24005] Re: Ruby's distribution payload size

> Personally, I would love to distribute small Ruby apps in a
> couple hundred K (the smaller the better). One of my
> "eventually" projects is to figure out how to package up a
> minimal Ruby with my apps.

kero@chmeee:/mnt/home/kero/iPAQ/familiar-0.5/ipkg$ ls -l *ruby*ipk
-rw-r--r-- 1 kero kero  826037 Sep 27 00:09 ruby-dev_1.6.5-1_arm.ipk
-rw-r--r-- 1 kero kero    4355 Sep 27 00:09 ruby-doc_1.6.5-1_arm.ipk
-rw-r--r-- 1 kero kero   78599 Sep 27 00:09 ruby-tk_1.6.5-1_arm.ipk
-rw-r--r-- 1 kero kero  585380 Sep 27 00:09 ruby_1.6.5-1_arm.ipk

Where familiar 0.5 is the upcoming linux-distro for iPAQ, for which I
packaged Ruby. Of course ruby-tk is without tcl/tk. Ruby-dev contains
libruby.a, the main ruby package does not. I am not claiming /all/
standard libraries are in there, but most certainly are (at least the
ones other ppl might use when compiling on the hardware generously
provided by Compaq).

The main ruby package is stripped and compressed, naturally.
The dev package is still compressed, but not stripped :)

Bye,
Kero.

PS: bare tcl/tk 8.3.3 is an extra 836466 + 1208233 bytes. For your
PDA, fltk may be a good choice, but that requires c++ libraries,
iirc. These amount to some disk/flash as well. Happy hacking!

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